Here is an extended response to the Leonard Nimoy project from gogopussycat. She moved me to tears.

I read one of the articles about the full body project, I thought it was really sweet that he has become a size activist. The only part that I didn’t like was at the very end of the article they said “while he isn’t sexually attracted to full figured women, he does
think they’re beautiful.”

Like, don’t think you are getting away with being sexually attractive fat women, you can be acceptable, but not sexy. I mean, did they ask him if he finds Jewish women sexually attractive when he did the Shekina project?

At the very least he himself is doing something wonderfully positive for feminism and size awareness, it was just the journalist who had to throw in that traditionally snide, just to keep fat women in their place style comment.

So overall yay fat women! Its always amazing to me to see that and think, how not offensive are their bodies are! Fat women are made to feel that the very presence of their bodies are offensive, like you can’t wear enough clothes to be socially acceptable - and the irony is that they are actually more beautiful naked. ( For one part its due to the horrible plus size fashion selection!)

Im always struck by how much more interesting plus size bodies are, and so organic, it looks much more like a living thing in nature, like a tree, or earthen shape. Which brings me around to fat modeling, like how interesting would it be to make clothes
and have fat models where you could actually see the fat shapes through the clothing,
and not just massive body shapers and corsets (fat women are so threatening they’ve
been sent back in time to the turn of the century).

There are some picts of Velvet on Contraband, where shes wearing a thin Jersey dress, and think no body shapers or underwear, so you can actually see her cellulite dimpling, and flesh folds. And can I tell you how amazingly not unbeautiful nor offensive it is. Everything about the photos were typical to a magazine spread - makeup, hair blown back, soft lighting….and body fat. The last thing you expect to see associated with glamour and style.

It was fabulous.

I felt a whole consciousness shift, like I couldn’t remember why I ever thought that it
was hideous or unacceptable when that would happen to me trying on a dress or pants
where the material was “too thin” or “too tight”.

And that’s the power of an image.